OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Soft Robotics is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A Soft Amphibious Turtle Robot with Flexibility and Omnidirectional Motion Ability Actuated by Multiple Bionic Muscles	134
Design and Control of Lightweight Bionic Arm Driven by Soft Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles	118
Bioinspired, Shape-Morphing Scale Battery for Untethered Soft Robots	83
Soft Robotic Perspective and Concept for Planetary Small Body Exploration	81
Twisting and Braiding Fluid-Driven Soft Artificial Muscle Fibers for Robotic Applications	79
Frictional Anisotropic Locomotion and Adaptive Neural Control for a Soft Crawling Robot	78
Shape Reconstruction of Extensible Continuum Manipulator Based on Soft Sensors	77
Steering Muscle-Based Bio-Syncretic Robot Through Bionic Optimized Biped Mechanical Design	74
Model-Based 3D Shape Reconstruction of Soft Robots via Distributed Strain Sensing	73
YoMo: Yoshimura Continuum Manipulator for MR Environment	73
Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Force Sensor Incorporated into Soft Robotic Gripper for Improved Grasping Stability	72
Magnetic Soft Catheter Robot System for Minimally Invasive Treatments of Articular Cartilage Defects	71
Optimal Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuated Multibody Dynamical Systems	69
Human-Inspired Tactile Perception System for Real-Time and Multimodal Detection of Tactile Stimuli	63
Harnessing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Locomotion and Mechanical Intelligence in a Soft Robot	62
Stiffness Preprogrammable Soft Bending Pneumatic Actuators for High-Efficient, Conformal Operation	62
Soft Tubular-Surface Rolling Robots	61
A Collaborative Flipping Continuum Wall-Climbing Robot with Integrated Drive and Function	56
Advancing Soft Robot Proprioception Through 6D Strain Sensors Embedding	52
Double-Layer Self-Locking Origami Based on Opposite Folding Motion	52
Biomimetic Octopus Suction Cup with Attachment Force Self-Sensing Capability for Cardiac Adhesion	49
Stiffness Tunable Magnetic Actuators Based on Shape Memory Polymer/NdFeB Composite for Segmental Controllable Motion	48
ZodiAq: An Isotropic Flagella-Inspired Soft Underwater Drone for Safe Marine Exploration	48
Ultrastable Soft Capacitive Tactile Sensor with Impedance-Modulated Signal	47
Chemically Driven Oscillating Soft Pneumatic Actuation	47

Improvement of Precision Grasping Performance by Interaction Between Soft Finger Pulp and Hard Nail	45
Selaginella lepidophylla -Inspired Multi-Stimulus Cooperative Control MXene-Based Flexible Actuator	43
Hygromachines: Humidity-Powered Wheels, Seesaws, and Vehicles	42
Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscle: Air-Based Thermo-Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Pumpless Pneumatic Actuation	42
A Variable Stiffness Bioinspired Swallowing Gripper Based on Particle Jamming	42
Origami Actuator with Tunable Limiting Layer for Morphological Adaptive Soft Robots	41
A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers	40
Magnetic Liquid Metal Droplet Robot with Multifunction and High Output Force in Milli-Newton	40
A Variable Stiffness Soft Gripper Based on Rotational Layer Jamming	40
Ultralow Voltage High-Performance Nanocellulose-Based Electro-Ionic Actuators for Soft Robots	39
A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse Fragilities	39
Closing the Control Loop with Time-Variant Embedded Soft Sensors and Recurrent Neural Networks	38
Enabling Tunable Stiffness, Adhesive Grasping, and Interaction-Driven Reconfiguration: A Shape-Memory-Polymer-Enhanced Fin-Ray Gripper	38
A Cut-and-Fold Self-Sustained Compliant Oscillator for Autonomous Actuation of Origami-Inspired Robots	37
3D-Printed Soft Sensors for Adaptive Sensing with Online and Offline Tunable Stiffness	36
Tunable Soft Lens of Large Focal Length Change	36
A Versatile 3D-Printable Soft Pneumatic Actuator Design for Multi-Functional Applications in Soft Robotics	35
A Versatile Topology-Optimized Compliant Actuator for Soft Robotic Gripper and Walking Robot	35
Electro-Thermopneumatically Actuated, Adhesion-Force Controllable Octopus-Like Suction Cup Actuator	34
Design, Modeling, and Validation of a Pneumatically Actuated Distal Segment for Endoscopy	33
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field	32
Far-Field Magnetic Sensing on Soft Origami Actuator for Spatial Multidimensional Movement and Force Perception	31
A Biomimetic Adhesive Disc for Robotic Adhesion Sliding Inspired by the Net-Winged Midge Larva	31
Soft Robot Proprioception Using Unified Soft Body Encoding and Recurrent Neural Network	30
SoftSnap: Rapid Prototyping of Untethered Soft Robots Using Snap-Together Modules	30
Bioinspired Vacuum Generation via Pressure-to-Vacuum Conversion for Manipulating all Phases of Matter	30
A Holistic Indirect Contact Identification Method for Soft Robot Proprioception	30
Toward Onboard Proportional Control of Multi-Chamber Soft Pneumatic Robots: A Magnetorheological Elastomer Valve Array	30
A Deep Learning Framework for Soft Robots with Synthetic Data	29
Fluid-Driven Traveling Waves in Soft Robots	29
Design and Motion Analysis of a Soft Modular Robot for Diverse Environments	29
Print-and-Spray Electromechanical Metamaterials	29
Adaptive and Robust Switchable Adhesion System: Bio-Inspired Synergistic Integration from Octopuses and Geckos	29
Fin-Bayes: A Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Framework for Soft Robotic Fingers	28
Reconfigurable, Transformable Soft Pneumatic Actuator with Tunable Three-Dimensional Deformations for Dexterous Soft Robotics Applications	28
Bioinspired Multimodal Multipose Hybrid Fingers for Wide-Range Force, Compliant, and Stable Grasping	27
Trajectory Planning on Rolling Locomotion of Spherical Movable Tensegrity Robots with Multi-Gait Patterns	27
Topology Optimization and Prototype of a Multimaterial-Like Compliant Finger by Varying the Infill Density in 3D Printing	27
A Fast Online Elastic-Spine-Based Stiffness Adjusting Mechanism for Fishlike Swimming	27
Tensegrity Robotics	27
Fast Thermal Actuators for Soft Robotics	26
HyReach: Vision-Guided Hybrid Manipulator Reaching in Cluttered Unseen Environments	26
An Ambidextrous STarfish-Inspired Exploration and Reconnaissance Robot (The ASTER-bot)	26
Introducing the New Deputy-Editor-in-Chief	26
A Soft Growing Robotic Endoscope for Painless and Strain-Free Insertion	26
Anguilliform Swimming Performance of an Eel-Inspired Soft Robot	25
Soft Robotics for Space Applications: Cryogenic Performance of Modular Metallic Cable Structures	24
The Walking Control of a Crab Biorobot in Amphibious Environment	24
FluidicOscillation-BasedPneumaticActuationfor SoftLocomotionandGrasping	24
Piezo-Wormbots for Continuous Crawling	24

Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2023	23
Acknowledgment of Reviewers 2024	23
A Hybrid Anchoring Technology Composed of Reinforced Flexible Shells for a Knee Unloading Exosuit	23
Intentional Blocking Based Photoelectric Soft Pressure Sensor with High Sensitivity and Stability	23
Design of a Wearable Real-Time Hand Motion Tracking System Using an Array of Soft Polymer Acoustic Waveguides	23
Nonlinear Dynamics Research of Ground Undulatory Fin Robot with Flexible Deformation and Frictional Contact	23
Armor-Based Stable Force Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Steady Actuation Properties	23
Fluidic Multichambered Actuator and Multiaxis Intrinsic Force Sensing	23
Single-Actuator Soft Robot for In-Pipe Crawling	22
Spikebot: A Multigait Tensegrity Robot with Linearly Extending Struts	22
Fin-A-Rays: Expanding Soft Gripper Compliance via Discrete Arrays of Flexible Structures	22
Bioinspired Swallowing Soft Gripper with Toroidal Optical Waveguides for Multimodal Interactive Perception	22
Bioinspired Soft Electrostatic Accordion-Fold Actuators	22
Optimal Design of Electrode Topology of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Based on the Parameterized Level Set Method	22
Biohybrid Behavior-Based Navigation with Obstacle Avoidance for Cyborg Insect in Complex Environment	21
Three-Fingered Soft Pneumatic Gripper Integrating Joint-Tuning Capability	21
A Bioinspired Compliant 3D-Printed Soft Gripper	21
An Inchworm-Inspired Fast-Moving Micro Flexible Robot for Autonomous Terrain-Adaptive Exploration	21
Biomimetic Closed-Loop Control of a Novel Soft Gastric Simulator Toward Emulating Antral Contraction Waves	21
Tuning the Morphology of Suction Discs to Enable Directional Adhesion for Locomotion in Wet Environments	21
Prescribing Cartesian Stiffness of Soft Robots by Co-Optimization of Shape and Segment-Level Stiffness	21
Shape and Tactile Perceptions of Soft Fingers via Distributed Curvature Sensing for Intelligent Grippers	21
MorphGI: A Self-Propelling Soft Robotic Endoscope Through Morphing Shape	21
Corrigendum to: Proprioception and Control of a Soft Pneumatic Actuator Made of a Self-Healable Hydrogel	21
Magnetic Continuum Robot with Intraoperative Magnetic Moment Programming	20
Soft Crawling Microrobot Based on Flexible Optoelectronics Enabling Autonomous Phototaxis in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments	20
A Gecko-Inspired Robot with a Flexible Spine Driven by Shape Memory Alloy Springs	20
Engineering Magnetic Soft and Reconfigurable Robots	20
Generating Clear Vibrotactile Cues with a Magnet Embedded in a Soft Finger Sheath	20